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Hi, I'm Bret. I'm a very Progressive Liberal. I believe in the truth behind science and mathematics. I believe supposed "creationists" are just too ignorant to understand actual science, and fall back to their magic storybook because real science is too hard for their itsy-bitsy lizard brains. I believe in equality for all people; straight, gay, bi, trans, white, black, brown it does not matter. We are all humans on this Earth for a limited time. Celebrate diversity and enjoy with other's bring to your life. End of story. ;-)

Monday, March 24, 2014

Good morning! Forty-nine years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr., and 3,200 other civil rights activists set out from Selma, Ala., on a march to Montgomery, the state capital, to demand their right to vote. Less than two weeks earlier, a smaller group…

The Supreme Court has eviscerated our already thin federal campaign finance rules, so reformers have turned to the states — the “laboratories of democracy” — to do better. Their efforts were born of frustration at the lack of movement in Washington…

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Every week Moyers & Company producer Gail Ablow shares her must-read money and politics stories. Waning Influence? Part 1: Tracking the “Unlobbyist”→ The Center for Responsive Politics launched a new series on its Open Secrets blog this week.…

American Family Association spokesperson Bryan Fischer railed against GOP House members on Friday for choosing to support an expanded immigration policy, Right Wing Watch reported. “The Republican leadership, the [House Speaker] John Boehners (R-OH…

By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A Mexican immigrant activist, who once famously sought refuge from deportation in a Chicago church, has been released from detention, U.S. immigration officials said on Friday, after she returned to the United…

Without mentioning his name Friday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow argued that, in a way, the recently-deceased Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church have served as an “American inspiration.” “The Westboro cult, despite itself, has been…

Real Time host Bill Maher called out Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison and his party to his face on Friday, accusing the Democrats of merely playing along with Republicans on the issue of gun safety. “Why doesn’t your party come out against…

While reserving a semblance of praise for President Barack Obama’s response to the Russian incursion in the Crimean peninsula, Real Time host Bill Maher and his panel clashed over whether the U.S. should be responding to it at all. “Can’t we ever…

Friday night, on his HBO show, Bill Maher told Democrats that if they could learn to win the word game, they could win more on the issues. He began the segment by telling Democrats that they need to stop talking about what a bloodbath the midterm elections…

In its ongoing post-”autopsy” effort to entice new voting blocs into the Republican Party, the Republican National Committee released a group of web ads featuring a bespectacled “Millennial” named Scott Greenberg in a tiny leather jacket, scruffy…

The Tea Party Express sent out an email to supporters on Saturday blasting rock-ribbed Republican Sen. Thad Cochran (MS) as insufficiently conservative. Talking Points Memo reported that the far-right pressure group claims to have several Republicans…

Members of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church staged their first protest Friday night after the death of the church’s founder Fred Phelps on Thursday. According to Kansas City’s KSHB Channel 41, the stridently anti-LGBT demonstrators were met…

Saturday, August 17, 2013

AMERICAN pronouncements on Russia always seem to involve carrots and sticks. In an interview Monday, Chuck Schumer shrugged off the idea of exerting pressure on Russia over its legal and social mistreatment of gay people by using the stick of a boycott…

“TOO many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law-enforcement reason.” The person who said that was neither a defence lawyer, nor a prisoners’-rights advocate, nor a European looking down his nose across the…

The United States and its European and Gulf allies were close to a peace deal two weeks ago between Mohamed Morsi supporters and Egypt's military, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The deal called for supporters of the ousted president to abandon…